Weather (Nature Company Guides)

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1. 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

   
   Anything you wanted to know about weather!, April 4, 2000

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   This review is from: Weather (Nature Company Guides) (Paperback)

   This book has wonderful photos of every type of weather from clouds, sun dogs, rainbows, hail, freezing rain, and on and on. Each description is only a page long and includes a photograph. It’s easy to understand and doesn’t get into too much detail. My 6 year old, although she didn’t understand the text, got this book out of the library and liked it so much she wanted a copy of her own — she loved looking at the different photos. And as an adult, I had to agree with her, it’s great just to thumb through as well as read the specifics.

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2. 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

   
   Very cool and informative Weather Guide, December 9, 2000

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   Todd Hawley (San Francisco CA) –
   
     

   This review is from: Weather (Nature Company Guides) (Paperback)

   It has been said “people complain about the weather but never do anything about it.” Perhaps that’s because they don’t know much about it. This book will help you learn more about our weather. I was looking for a book that explained about various weather phenomenon and came across it. I loved it not only because of the pictures and descriptions in the last chapter on various weather types (different kinds of fogs, clouds, storms, precipitation, optical effects, etc), but also for lost of other information covered in the book, but also because the book’s other chapters also contained so much excellent information. Subjects like Understanding the Weather (which covers the atmosphere, sources of weather, global wind patterns and different kinds of winds, frontal systems, etc.), Forecasting the Weather (obviously that has never been an exact science!), Changing the Weather, and also a secion on different climates and how humankind and animals adapt.
   There are lots of pictures and diagrams in this book which help to explain key weather concepts. One day I will force myself to read this book cover to cover instead of getting sidetracked at all the gorgeous illustrations and pictures in this book, every time I pick it up to read it.

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   Very Good !, February 7, 2012

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   5/0 “Outdoors USA” –

   This review is from: Weather (Nature Company Guides) (Paperback)

   “A Guide to Weather” edited by Richard Whitaker and written by several noted science professors from around the globe. Though more expensive (in hardback) than many such books, this one is very nicely appointed as well as being well-organized, comprehensive, very informative and understandable, and just plain enjoyable. But it is also Basic, and definitely not a field reference or daily reference in any sense of those terms. It’s certainly worth reading and keeping but I would look for it “on sale”. (That might just be my cherished Scotch ancestry showing through, however.)

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